SweetWagon
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- VS Berlina Wagon Supercharged
Pretty sure you have to run a dummy idler without power steering on the old buick.
The lock washers you can grab from any steering specialist, my bloke gave me a handfull for free. Take note of how they sit on your current rack ends. The new ones will be flat. Once they're in there (they lock into the rack end), and the rack end is tightened up to about 80nm (or just as tight as you can bloody well get them), then smash the ends of the washers down with a small hammer, so they "lock" around the flat parts of the rack
And you're done!
Keep in mind you have to pry back the old lock washers before you can remove the rack ends
Thanks morton, I take it would be a bad idea to reuse the washers. I will get some new ones then Dad seems to think the rack needs to be re-shimmed, so looks like ill be pulling it out afterall.
Cheers